Friday, April 4, 2008

Welcome!

This site was developed to provide easier access to medieval manuscripts as they are presented online.

There are a variety of institutions that provide access to the manuscripts and the presentation of the manuscripts themselves is provided in a variety of ways. I intend to provide a basic introduction to some of these in a series of short articles that deal with individual aspects of manuscript digitization. I aim to update the website periodically with new features such as weekly articles on medieval MSS in the news as well as new facsimiles, websites, podcasts, etc. but that aspect of organization is still under construction.

To assist viewers in their research the features in the sidebar (links, news, entry tags, &c.) will be maintained and a table of contents will be added. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to use the comment function to contact me!

The Nativity; Harley 2876 f. 32v, courtesy of the British Library.

Introduction

This blog is the result of an independent study at the University of Maine at Augusta, but has become an ongoing project which is added to or edited on a semi-weekly basis. I'm not going to post when I make small updates to the information here, but please be assured things are improving constantly (add your feedback in the comments, if you have a moment, and it will roll along a bit faster!).

The goal of this project is to provide a general introduction to medieval manuscripts as they are presented online to various audiences from web-surfers to professional researchers.